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Latest Sacred Sites stories on ABC Alice Springs

For decades Alice Springs has faced a worsening problem: how to look after the more than one hundred sacred sites dotted around the town. Litter, development and vandalism have degraded sites of great importance to the local Indigenous people. Now a new employment program developed by the locals ...

Latest Sacred Sites stories on ABC Online

The current racial tension in Ferguson Missouri reveals fault lines that still lie in post-segregation America - in the 50th anniversary year of the Civil Rights movement. Meanwhile our Northern Territory Intervention remains in place, highlighting the continuing disadvantage of ...

More than 60 Traditional Owners from around WA converged on Parliament House in Perth, to protest planned changes to the Aboriginal Heritage Act. They say they haven't been consulted, and the changes will make it easier for mining and development to destroy sacred sites. The WA Aboriginal ...

The current racial tension in Ferguson Missouri reveals fault lines that still lie in post-segregation America - in the 50th anniversary year of the Civil Rights movement. Meanwhile our Northern Territory Intervention remains in place, highlighting the continuing disadvantage of ...